The Daily Newds

• Sean Connery a nude artist's model in his youth? According to this article, it's true.
• Nudity has become the focus regarding a new play about baseball, homosexuality and prejudice, which is upsetting to the actors because people are not talking about the story or the characters, only the fact that there are naked people on stage.
• In China, a new art exhibit devoted to images of the nude female body is open to children. "The human body is not mysterious and the exhibition aims to display the beauty of the human body as well as providing opportunities for art lovers to exchange views on art and painting," said Liu Rongyan, vice-curator of the Heilongjiang Art Museum, the exhibition sponsor. "Today's kids and teenagers have easy access to pictures of the human body on the Internet, but most are pornographic pictures and unsuitable for the healthy development of young people," said Zhang Kun, a sociologist with the Harbin University of Science and Technology. Good for them, the Chinese seem to recognize what Americans refuse to acknowledge - that the naked human body is natural, normal and healthy. Shielding children from the most basic of realities can only be harmful in the long run.
• The clothing-optional pools at Harbin Hot Springs in California must be a sample of what it is like to be in Heaven.